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Nuance Needs to Take Holiday in the Old USSR
If you lack the vocabulary to say precisely what you mean, I suggest you don’t become a writer.
There seems to be an infection going around. Too many are saying that writing must be ‘nuanced.’ Might I ask you why? It doesn’t make the writing brilliant or interesting. It just makes it misunderstood by some, skipped over by others because it’s not clear, or very confusing as it appears that the writer doesn’t know what they’re saying either.
On the other hand, if we now live in an age where the freedom to explain some obvious things is limited because the gatekeepers of the politically correct gestapo say we mustn’t say those things, then we are living in dangerous times. This is what I feared about Kamala Harris becoming president. She would stop anything that didn’t suit a particular section of the population, and so if one needed to say something, I suppose ‘nuance’ would be the way around.
By the same token, saying something directly, doesn’t mean that one has to be a vulgar bully, insulting where it isn’t necessary (or nice) to insult. There are many words in the English language.
My late father, a Jewish journalist in Nazi Germany, was well aware of how to say things without actually saying them. The problem was that many of…
